Enid Blyton's Magazine

Enid Blyton parted company from Newnes and Sunny Stories in 1953 and launched Enid Blyton's Magazine with Evans Brothers. The reason for this was that Newnes were only prepared to advertise the books that they published and Enid wanted a much broader field to advertise her books, jigsaws, toys and games. This magazine ran to 162 issues until Enid's failing health caused its closure in 1959.

None of these magazines is titled, so in each case I have used the title of the first story. Apart from the stories, all issues had a lengthy introductory letter from Enid, along with puzzles, competitions and information on her various charities.

One of the major bonuses of Enid Blyton's Magazine is that many of the serialised stories used illustrations that were not used in the later books. In the case of the various serialised Famous Five books, none of Eileen Soper's illustrations were used in the books which were all freshly illustrated and of course the magazines also contain many more illustrations than the books. Unlike Sunny Stories many illustrations were printed in two colours, normally red and black, though both green and black and blue and black were also used for a short period.